Falsimohnia fulvicans

Falsimohnia fulvicans
Original image of a shell of Falsimohnia fulvicans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Prosiphonidae
Genus:	Falsimohnia
Species:	F. fulvicans
Binomial name
Falsimohnia fulvicans (Strebel, 1908)
Synonyms [1]
Bela fulvicansStrebel, 1908 (original combination) Mangelia fulvicans(Strebel, 1908)

Falsimohnia fulvicans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Prosiphonidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 8.2 mm, its diameter 4.6 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Southern Argentina and South Georgia

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2013). Falsimohnia fulvicans (Strebel, 1908). In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=736319 on 2017-03-12

• Strebel, H. 1908. Die Gastropoden (mit Ausnahme de nackten Opisthobranchier). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903 6(1): 111 pp., 6 pls This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
• Kantor Yu.I. & Harasewych M.G. (2013) Antarctica, where turrids and whelks converge: A revision of Falsimohnia Powell, 1951 (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea) and a description of a new genus. The Nautilus 127(2): 43-56
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.